Secrets from Beyond The Grave

nine months before Christ's birth. Even when the child is not yet born, the woman is called mother . Also in Luke 1:41-44, when Elizabeth was speaking about her baby in her womb, she said, "The babe leaped in my womb for joy" (v. 44). The Greek word babe here is brephos and is the second most common word used for " babe ." Throughout the Scriptures God calls future children the "seed"--even before they are conceived in the womb. Abraham and his sons were circumcised in the flesh of their foreskins, and all Hebrew infant sons were to be circumcised on the eighth day after their birth as a sign of their covenant with God (Gen. 17:1-14). When a Hebrew son grew into a man, married, and consummated the marriage with his wife, his seed (sperm) would pass through the "sign" of the covenant (the mark of circumcision on his flesh), and the seed would enter the woman. Thus, the seed was "marked" for blessing by the Lord before the infant was ever conceived. This same principle is found in the account where Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek in Jerusalem. (See Genesis 14.) In Hebrews 7:1-10, the writer wrote that Abraham paid tithe for Levi, who was still in his father's loins when Abraham met Melchizedek! At the time, Isaac, Jacob, and his son, Levi, had not been born, and yet an act of faith by Abraham was impacting three generations that were still seeds in Abraham's loins. For someone to state that a child only becomes a human when the umbilical cord is cut shows severe lack of knowledge and understanding of Scripture. In the Bible the moment of conception is the mark of the birth; it is not merely the birth process that comes with the labor pains nine months later. In the King James Version of the Bible, Scripture continually speaks of a "son" being conceived: "Children . . . " and "sons in the womb . . . " (Gen. 25:21-22; Ruth 1:11, 2 Kings 19:3). "A male child is conceived" (Job 3:3). "Elizabeth . . . has also conceived a son . . . " (Luke 1:36).

"Elizabeth . . . brought forth a son" (Luke 1:57). "The babe leaped in her womb" (Luke 1:41, 44).

One of the most important facts is that God foreknows the child while the infant is still in the womb, or as Jeremiah explains, before the infant is ever conceived God knows that child's destiny: Before I formed you in the womb I knew you;

Before you were born I sanctified you;

I ordained you a prophet to the nations.

--Jeremiah 1:5

For You formed my inward parts;

You covered me in my mother's womb.

I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

--Psalm 139:13-14

Notice the special occasions when God foreordained the names of the sons who were to